Christians, Obama said "The good in me came from my mother" His mother's an Atheist. What's your opinion?

Question

doesn't that make Atheist look good?

Answer 1

Yeah I suppose if you are into vast generalizations like that.
As for Obama, good for him, everyone is entitled to an opinion.

Answer 2

First of all, how do you know his mother is an Atheist? It is hard to really know what is true and what is not when it comes to the media and politics.

Second of all, just because a person does not have the same religious beliefs as you does not make them and bad or immoral person. Look at all the Catholic priests that took advantage of their positions to commit unspeakable acts on innocent children. Does that make Christinanity look bad? Would it be fair to judge the actions of a few people and decide that everyone in that group is the same?

I would take his statement to mean that he had a wonderful mother. Only a person that was digging deep to find something against Obama would come to the conclusion that he was trying to make Atheism look good.

Answer 3

His mother's an Atheist. He was a Morman. When he decided on a political life, he switched his "religion" to be more acceptible to the masses. Nothing is publically said about his father's belief system.
He's just another lying and manipulative politician playing the game.

Answer 4

People need to stop making other people less human just because they don't share the same religious belief or any religious belief. The world is full of wonderful people who are Atheists. The world is also full of people who claim to be Xian, Muslim, etc. and are the most violent, vile, narrow minded people on Earth. Just because you claim to be a member of a religious group does not automatically make you a good and moral person...

Answer 5

His mother wasn't the athiest...his father was, after years of being a muslim. This is from his book...

"I was not raised in a religious household. My maternal grandparents, who hailed from Kansas, had been steeped in Baptist and Methodist teachings as children, but religious faith never really took root in their hearts. My mother's own experiences as a bookish, sensitive child growing up in small towns in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas only reinforced this inherited skepticism. [...] My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition.

Obama writes that his religious convictions formed during his twenties, when, as a community organizer working with local churches, he came to understand "the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change":

It was because of these newfound understandings–that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved–that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized. It came about as a choice and not an epiphany; the questions I had did not magically disappear. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side of Chicago, I felt God's spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth."[132]


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Answer 6

Sounds like you are reading, far too much, into his statement. Besides, he won't be the next president, so how does that make Atheists look?

Answer 7

We need an atheist president (at least he is closely related to an atheist, which is closer than most politicians like to get).

Answer 8

I can't think of any reason why not. His statement doesn't have anything negative about Christians. He didn't say "and all of the bad in me came from my Christian father" did he?

Answer 9

no that makes a human being look good. but i thought he is muslim.

Answer 10

His mother was obviously a good person